BRIEF
CV (Full CV)
RESEARCH AREAS
Applied
and Computational Mathematics with emphases on:
·
Data Science
and Machine Learning with applications in geophysical, life, and materials
science
·
Digital
Twins for Health
·
Modeling and
Computation of Soft Matter and Complex Biological Systems
·
Fluid
Mechanics of Complex Flows and Rheology of Complex Fluids
·
Non-equilibrium
Theories for Complex Systems (Kinetic and Continuum Mechanics Theories)
·
Numerical
Methods for Partial Differential Equations
·
Applied
Analysis of Dynamical Systems and PDEs
EDUCATION
MS,
Mathematics,
The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio, 1988
BS,
Mathematics,
Nankai
University, Tianjin, P. R. China, 1982
PROFESSIONAL
EMPLOYMENT
2008-Present, Professor, Department of Mathematics,
University of South Carolina
2013-2019, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor,
Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
2003-2009, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
2001-2003, Associate
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
1991-2001, Assistant
Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
1/1990-4/1990, Research Associate, CNLS, Los Alamos National Lab
OTHER APPOINTMENTS & AFFILIATIONS
2023-Present: Thrust Leader, Thrust III:
DT-Enabled Biomedical Devices for Rehabilitation and Therapy, NSF EPSCOR RII
Track-1: “ADAPT in SC: AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of
Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina”
2008-Present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, USC
2009-2019: Founding Member, Member of Executive Committee, Interdisciplinary Mathematics
Institute (IMI), USC
2008-2018: Thrust Leader, Theory, Modeling, and
Simulation, NanoCenter at USC
2011-2016: Thrust Leader, Thrust on Modeling and
Simulation of Biofabrication, NSF EPSCOR RII Track-1:
“3-D Biofabrication”
2004-2007: Director of Applied and Computational
Mathematics Program, Florida State University
2/2005-4/2005:
Visiting Professor, IMA, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, NM
1/1999-5/1999:
Visiting Associate Professor,
Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(UNC-CH), Chapel Hill, NC
AWARDS and HONORS
2020, USC Educational
Foundation Research Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering